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Schematic diagram of an ancient Iranian windcatcher and qanat, used for evaporative cooling of buildings. Illustration based on concepts as
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discussed in article by Bahadori, M. N. titled "Passive Cooling Systems in Iranian Architecture" Scientific American, February 1978, pages 144-154, Wikipedia Commons.
Food wastage amounts to US$ 310 billion annually in developing countries, the bulk of it from fruits and vegetables. Could a 4,000-year old idea for food storage help in reducing such wastage?
Food storage, from ‘farm to fork’, requires infrastructure, energy and suitable space, among other factors. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has identified, unsurprisingly, the bulk of the food wasted as fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers. All are highly perishable but all necessary elements for micro-nutrient provision for many who now suffer from undernourishment and malnutrition in the Asia-Pacific.
The use of an ancient cooling technology that uses the effects of evaporative cooling is proposed to address such food wastage.
One-third of all food
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An overview of Tuesday’s realtime forex price action for the major movers shows that the Loonie weakened the most, although
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the Euro also fell slightly. In addition, the Aussie gained substantial ground, while the Yen was mildly higher.
A more technical EURUSD analysis shows that the rate made another fresh recent high on Tuesday at the 1.4247 level within an impressive rally that commenced at the important 1.2873 reversal point of January 10th. Although the rate ended slightly lower on the day, this rally in EURUSD is still expected to continue near term.
This most recent high continues to support a Euro forecast that targets the key 1.4281 reversal level of November 4th, 2010 in the coming sessions. Above that major resistance point, resistance then shows up at the 1.4579 level for EURUSD.
In addition, the rate’s key 200-day Moving Average is now at 1.3321 and rising. This indicates a bullish medium term outlook for the rate and its level should effectively limit downside price action until a significant trend reversal takes place in EURUSD.
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ARLINGTON, Texas >> Albert Pujols’ third-inning home run Monday night put the Angels in line for their second straight victory
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and also moved him further up on baseball’s historic ladder.
With Mike Trout standing on second base after doubling in the previous at-bat, Pujols drove a 92 mph sinker from Texas Rangers left-hander Derek Holland 437 feet into the left-field seats.
It was the 569th career homer for the 36-year-old Pujols, who tied Rafael Palmeiro for 12th on the all-time list, and it was all the offense the Angels needed as they hung on to defeat the Rangers, 2-0, at Globe Life Park.
The veteran first baseman, who has nine home runs through 45 games, is on pace to hit 33 homers, which would put him ninth on the career list by season’s end, potentially passing not only Palmeiro but also Harmon Killebrew, Mark McGwire and Frank Robinson.
Joe Smith, who has filled in as the closer for the injured Huston Street, earned
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Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, had a problem. As did Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state.
It was
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Nov. 3, a Saturday, 72 hours to Election Day. Virtually tied in the polls with Democrat Stacey Abrams, Kemp was in danger of becoming the first Georgia Republican to lose a statewide election since 2006. And, now, a new threat. The secretary of state’s office had left its voter-registration system exposed online, opening Kemp to criticism that he couldn’t secure an election that featured him in the dual roles of candidate and overseer.
But by the next day, Kemp and his aides had devised one solution for both problems, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows.
They publicly accused the Democratic Party of Georgia of trying to hack into the voter database in a failed attempt to steal the election. The announcement added last-minute drama to an already contentious campaign. More important, it also pre-empted scrutiny of the secretary of state’s own missteps while initiating a highly unusual criminal investigation into his political rivals.
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If Novak Djokovic wins the French Open, he'll be the third athlete in four years to dominate on all three grand-slam
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surfaces—the result of subtle changes that favor long, dramatic matches between superstars.
When Andre Agassi won the French Open in 1999, he earned the distinction of being the first player in the Open Era of men's tennis (1968-2008) to win every grand-slam tournament on the sport's three different playing surfaces: grass, clay, and hard courts. Rod Laver was the first Open Era player to win each title or complete a career grand slam, but the difference between Laver and Agassi's achievements—besides the fact Laver won all four tournaments in the same calendar year—is that Laver did it when every grand slam except the French Open was played on grass, whereas Agassi won the U.S. Open and the Australian Open on the hard-court surfaces those tournaments currently employ.
Agassi's accomplishment stands as a testament to his incredible talent, since tennis used to be a game that catered to different playing styles depending upon the surface
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WASHINGTON — Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has launched a new toolkit
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to help support the deployment of high-speed broadband e-Connectivity in rural communities.
The e-Connectivity Toolkit features 27 USDA programs that support broadband deployment. The easy-to-use resource is a simple guide that allows customers to identify their type of e-Connectivity project and locate resources the federal government offers for planning, equipment, construction, research and other e-Connectivity projects. Resources such as grants, loans and technical assistance are available from multiple Mission Areas at USDA, including Rural Development, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Forest Service.
The toolkit highlights examples of how e-Connectivity resources are being used to increase access to broadband services in rural communities. It is free and available to the public online, and can be easily printed for offline use.
USDA’s launch of the e-Connectivity Toolkit closely follows Secretary Sonny Perdue’s unveiling of the ReConnect Program,
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The Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County will pay Rolling Meadows $300,000 over the next two years for the option to buy 6.7
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acres of city-owned land for a new garbage transfer station.
Under the plan, unanimously approved by the City Council on Tuesday, the city will get $70,000 now and the $230,000 balance in a year.
After two years, the waste agency will have to pay an additional $1.1 million if it wishes to exercise its option to buy the land.
The property, at 3851 Berdnick St., already serves as a garbage transfer station for Rolling Meadows. And the city can continue to use the site in that capacity until the sale is final, said City Manager Robert Beezat.
The waste agency, a consortium of 26 north and northwest suburbs, is expected to begin building a new station on the site before the sale is final. The old one, however, will not be torn down until the property changes hands. Earlier this month, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency approved plans for the transfer station to be built in Rolling Meadows.
The waste
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The list of candidates for the Health Care Financing Administration's new headquarters has been whittled to four, with Owings Mills having been ruled
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out by the General Services Administration as a site for the federal agency that runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
"Essentially, GSA said it didn't feel the site was appropriate compared to the other ones," said John Chirtea, a partner in Linpro Co. Inc., one of the companies that had been trying to persuade the government to move the agency, which now occupies several buildings in Woodlawn, to a 40-acre site off Lakeside Boulevard northwest of Owings Mills Mall. He said he had received a letter from the GSA dated Thursday.The GSA leases and manages federal offices.
The GSA action, which the agency would not confirm, narrows the search for a headquarters site to Woodlawn or downtown Baltimore. Baltimore and Baltimore County officials have been competing fiercely for the project, coveting the economic benefits that would come from a complex for 3,300 government workers by 1995.
Developers backing two of the four remaining sites said they
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Preliminary data suggest that smart phone apps and wearable sensors are promising for improving cardiovascular health behaviors.
Self-monitoring is a key facet
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of changing behavior to prevent and manage heart health. Smartphone apps and wearable sensors have the potential to encourage positive change.
DALLAS — Smartphone applications and wearable sensors have the potential to help people make healthier lifestyle choices, but scientific evidence of mobile health technologies’ effectiveness for reducing risk factors for heart disease and stroke is limited, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association, published in the association’s journal Circulation.
The new statement reviewed the small body of published, peer-reviewed studies about the effectiveness of mobile health technologies (mHealth) for managing weight, increasing physical activity, quitting smoking and controlling high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.
“The fact that mobile health technologies haven’t been fully studied doesn’t mean that they are not effective. Self-monitoring is one of the core strategies for changing cardiovascular health behaviors. If a mobile health technology, such as a smartphone app for self-monitoring diet, weight or
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You can help have a say in the future of Amherst. The Planning Department of the Town of Amherst is beginning a week-
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long push on September 24th, as part of their plans to formulate recommendations to revise the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Code for the Town.
Dubbed "ImagineAmherst," the program seems to combine expertise from local volunteer technical and working committee members with public input to help formulate a new vision for the community’s commercial centers.
The Planning Department will take your input directly as a series of workshops called "charette."
The workshops will inform the community vision for six select areas by discovering what's most important to the community. The workshops will also educate the community about possible options for new zoning that could be applies in these areas.
The Charrette schedule in its entirety is as follows. Note, that if one can only attend a single event, the first (Saturday 9/24 at 9am) would be the most foundational; followed in priority by Wednesday 9/28 (7pm).
The design studio will be open to the public for most of the charrette
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What predictions of failure for the iPhone can teach us about iPad predictions.
A month ago, before any of us knew anything for sure about Apple
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’s tablet, I looked back at the period before any of us knew anything for sure about Apple’s phone. It turned out that about 95% of the speculation and rumors about the iPhone had nothing to do with the device that Apple actually announced at Macworld Expo in January of 2007.
Now that we know quite a bit about the iPad, a massive rush to judgment is already underway, with pundits predicting everything from historic success to epic failure. Which led me to wonder: How accurate were the first predictions that got made about the iPhone’s fate? So I went back and read scads of stories from the first couple of weeks after the phone’s announcement.
Overall, they weren’t bad. Lots of pundits said it was a landmark product with the potential to transform the phone business. But there were plenty of dissenting opinions, too. This article is devoted to them.
I’m not dredging up these stories to mock anyone.
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Two years ago, a young activist named Marla Ruzicka sat in a Senate hearing room listening to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
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testify about the war in Afghanistan. She had come to Washington to try to urge greater U.S. attention to civilian casualties in that war, and Rumsfeld barely touched on the topic.
Ruzicka, then 25, had already forged a reputation in leftist circles. She once had disrupted a speech on AIDS by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. Another time, she was hauled off by police after she ripped off a sarong -- which inside had a protest statement -- during a speech by then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
Title: Founder and director, Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict.
Education: Bachelor's degree in political science and social work, Long Island University.
Career highlights: Activist work, Afghanistan, 2001-2002; assistant to founder, Global Exchange, 2000-2001; fundraiser, Benjamin for Senate, 2000; fundraiser, Rainforest Action Network, 1999-2000.
Now, she sat wondering: "Should I let him talk
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Courtney Kube, national security and military reporter for NBC News, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump warning Russia that he’s
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launching missiles at Syria even though the US has not actually decided what kind of action to take Bashar al-Assad.
It was just yesterday morning when Donald Trump rattled much of the world, announcing via Twitter that Russia should “get ready” because the United States was poised to launch missiles in Syria. As Rachel explained on the show last night, the presidential missive caught White House officials and U.S. allies abroad off-guard – because no one knew what Trump was talking about.
The Washington Post had an interesting behind-the-scenes look at developments in the White House, where officials were “proceeding with uncharacteristic deliberation” about the U.S. response to the Syrian government’s latest alleged gas attack, right up until Trump published an odd tweet for the world to see.
The Twitter disruptions were emblematic of a president operating on a tornado of impulses – and with no clear strategy – as he faces some of the most consequential
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Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon advised Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini to attack the pope over the issue of
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migration, according to sources close to the Italian far right.
During a meeting in Washington in April 2016, Bannon – who would within a few months take up his role as head of Trump’s presidential campaign – suggested the leader of Italy’s anti-immigration League party should start openly targeting Pope Francis, who has made the plight of refugees a cornerstone of his papacy.
“Bannon advised Salvini himself that the actual pope is a sort of enemy. He suggested for sure to attack, frontally,” said a senior League insider with knowledge of the meeting in an interview with the website SourceMaterial.
The claims coincide with suggestions that Bannon’s pan-European populist project, the Movement, has stalled. Meanwhile, Salvini has announced that he wants to bring the far right from across Europe into an alliance. Last Monday in Milan, he unveiled his “vision of Europe for the next 50 years”, billing it as the launch of a
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My bucket list isn't a physical list I have somewhere, but I know an opportunity when I see it.
I competed in a hot dog
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eating contest, took a Josh Beckett fastball, tried to return Andy Roddick's serve and flown in a blimp over New York City.
This year, I decided I wanted to sing the National Anthem at a baseball stadium. I put the challenge out to Twitter and I had seven teams come back with offers.
I picked the Tampa Bay Rays because they made it more than being about me. They paired it up with their first "Tweet-Up," gave away shirts with Twitter handles and offered discounts to their Twitter followers.
We worked on dates for a while, but ultimately it worked out better for CNBC's strong dayside audience to do it during the day. We settled on August 4th, which meant they were playing the Blue Jays, the only Canadian team in the league.
I agreed to sing both anthems, even though the only words I knew to "Oh Canada" were the first two lines.
Over the last couple weeks, I studied and studied
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If you are looking for a new alternative to chips and dips for your next party, serve John W. Macy’s “original C
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heddar” CheeseSticks with guacamole. These twisted CheeseSticks are made with wholesome, all-natural ingredients – no artificial dyes, flavorings or preservatives. And they are tasty!
You can serve CheeseSticks right out of the box, warm them in the oven, or try them with your favorite dip or salsa.
Here’s a fabulous guacamole recipe that is perfect to accompany the CheeseSticks.
Place onion, chiles, cilantro and sprinkle of salt in a mortar and pestle.
Place avocado meat into pestle and mash well (leave some chunks).
Bowl the guacamole and serve immediately with a basket of CheeseSticks.
While Original Cheddar CheeseSticks remain the Company’s bestseller, John Wm. Macy’s CheeseSticks has expanded the gourmet product line to include five additional savory CheeseSticks varieties along with two dessert SweetSt
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Nazi essay apology: A high school in New York apologized when an English teacher asked students to “think like a Nazi” for an essay
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The teacher wanted the students to use “solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich” as part of a persuasive writing assignment. The teacher also wanted them to “argue that Jews are evil,” reported the Albany Times-Union.
Albany Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard said the essay was part of exercises that were intended to help students come up with persuasive arguments.
Students were also asked to read and watch Nazi propaganda to come up with their arguments.
Around a third of the students refused to do the essay, according to The Associated Press.
When she heard about it, Vanden Wyngaard said she “thought the assignment was ill-conceived, I thought it was inappropriate, I thought it was an absolute, not only misjudgment just horror I can’t describe it in any other words,” according to HudsonValley.ynn.com
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Richards Bay is joining other coastal cities and building a desalination plant to survive the crippling drought. By converting sea water into fresh, the
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plant will allow the town to tap into what engineers refer to as an “almost infinite” water resource.
But water and sanitation officials say the option is one of “last resort” and has come about because of slow work by the water department on other projects.
The water department’s own plans show that desalination was seen as a last resort – becaue it is so expensive and uses so much electricity. Research by the Water Research Commission breaks this down: the City of Cape Town can produce water for R1.25 a kilolitre using a mix of water sources, while Rand Water in Gauteng can produce water for R2.50 per kilolitre.
But a large desalination plant along the coast produces water at anywhere between R5.80 and R8.30 per kilolitre.
Big plants, such as the one being built in Lamberts Bay in the Western Cape, use huge amounts of electricity
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As Harvard defends its admissions process in federal court, its officials and legal filings return, again and again, to the importance of diversity.
There
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are compelling legal reasons for that emphasis. But it has drawn attention to the ways in which Harvard is — and isn't — as diverse as the nation at large. Most notably, Harvard students remain much wealthier than their non-Harvard peers.
Low-income students and their advocates have argued that the school should do more to bring those students to campus and to make them feel welcome after they arrive. But they disagree about how that should be accomplished and about whether a focus on household economics could totally replace the current system of racial preferences.
Back on June 15, Harvard filed its initial legal response to the complaint from Students For Fair Admissions (SFFA), the group that has alleged discrimination against Asian-American applicants.
In it, the university argued that it “has long understood that its students learn as much in their daily interactions with one another as they do in formal classroom settings.” To that end, the filing continues, Harvard has sought to admit students from “
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Scott Silverstein (Sr., Olney, Md.) pitched seven innings of one-run baseball as the Virginia baseball team notched a 7
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-1 triumph over Monmouth Saturday afternoon at Davenport Field. Silverstein (1-0) struck out a career-high eight batters while limiting the Hawks to three hits in the longest outing of his UVa career.
Virginia (4-1-1) goes for the three-game series sweep at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Reed Gragnani (Jr., Richmond, Va.) had a three-run double for the Cavaliers, while freshman Branden Cogswell (Ballston Lake, N.Y.) added a pair of hits and scored twice.
Shane Halley (Sr., Burke, Va.) and Austin Young (So., Mechanicsville, Va.) each pitched a perfect inning and struck out two in relief of Silverstein. UVa pitchers combined to strike out a dozen batters.
Monmouth starting pitcher Dan Smith (1-1) took the loss after allowing seven runs (six earned), seven hits and three walks in five
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Four men, including one from Derby, are due in court to face extradition proceedings after being arrested in Britain as part of an international investigation into an
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alleged Islamist terror network.
The suspects were among 13 arrested across Europe by investigators probing a group called Rawti Shax, which is described as a ``terrorist organisation of Kurdish-Sunni origin''.
The four men arrested in the UK on Thursday, who are not believed to be British nationals, are aged 38, 32, 33 and 52, from Hull, Derby, Birmingham and Sheffield respectively and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court today.
Suspects were also arrested in Italy and Norway, while authorities in Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK also searched a total of 26 properties and seized several items including electronic devices and documents.
Eurojust, the EU agency which co-ordinated the raids, said suspected leaders and several members of the group were arrested during simultaneous activity in six countries.
The suspects were feared to be planning to target British diplomats following the imprisonment of the ideological leader of Rawti Shax, the Sun reported.
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The new free Starting with Soil app offers a "playful, visually rich way" of helping kids (and adults) learn about healthy soil
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, which is a crucial part of our food system.
I have to admit that I'm somewhat of a soil snob, and tend to get up on my soap box when I hear people referring to the earth beneath their feet as 'dirt', as if it's just some inert substance, because this humble brown substance is often more full of life than what's above ground, or when referred to as if it's 'dirty' -- the opposite of cleanliness, which we've come to fetishize in modern culture. There's a huge variety and number of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, algae, nematodes, and more in healthy soil, and it is this rich web of relationships which builds the soil that is at the root of our food system, literally. It's said that good farmers don't grow crops, they grow soil, because with fertile soil, the crops have everything they need for optimal growth and pest and disease resistance.
With rising interest in bringing gardens
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A much-hailed law that restricted the opening of new stand-alone fast-food restaurants in one of the poorest sections of Los Angeles did
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not curb obesity or improve diets, a new study found.
City lawmakers passed the zoning ordinance in 2008 that limited the opening or expansion of fast-food outlets in a 32-square-mile area south of Interstate 10 that struggles with high obesity rates and other health problems.
The law, believed to be the first effort of its kind by a major city to improve public health, did not ban new eateries in strip malls.
The research by the Rand Corp. think tank found that obesity rates in South Los Angeles continued to rise after passage of the law.
"It had no meaningful effect," Rand senior economist Roland Sturm said. "There's no evidence that diets have improved more in South LA. Obesity and overweight rates have not fallen."
Health experts said a single intervention would not reverse the obesity problem. People also have to exercise and make lifestyle changes, they said.
"It's not just about limiting unhealthy food, but increasing
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Twila Van Leer: Who remembers the date Utah was made a state?
Published: January 4, 2018 6:05 am Updated:
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Jan. 4, 2018 12:23 p.m.
I just know you all jumped out of bed this morning and put on your best bib and tucker to be ready for the big celebration.
President Cleveland could simply have said, as he signed the Jan. 4, 1896, documents, “Finally, Utah is a state.” But in true legal fashion, what he said was: (after a whole bunch of whereases) “Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, president of the United States of America, in accordance with the Act of Congress, aforesaid and by authorization thereof, announce the result of said election to be so certified and do hereby declare and proclaim that the terms and conditions prescribed by the Congress of the United States to entitle the State of Utah to admission into the Union have been fully complied with and that the creation of said state and its admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original states is now accomplished.”
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THERE are many ways to console someone when a multimillion-dollar business deal falls through. Firing off a “tough break�
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� e-mail message punctuated by a frown-face emoticon is not one of them.
Emoticons, the smiling, winking and frowning faces that inhabit the computer keyboard, have not only hung around long past their youth faddishness of the 1990s, but they have grown up. Twenty-five years after they were invented as a form of computer-geek shorthand, emoticons — an open-source form of pop art that has evolved into a quasi-accepted form of punctuation — are now ubiquitous.
No longer are they simply the province of the generation that has no memory of record albums, $25 jeans or a world without Nicole Richie. These Starburst-sweet hieroglyphs, arguably as dignified as dotting one’s I’s with kitten faces, have conquered new landscape in the lives of adults, as more of our daily communication shifts from the spoken word to text. Applied appropriately, users say, emot
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To get across Dublin city from, for example, St Vincent’s University Hospital on the southside to Beaumont on the northside
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or to Connolly in the west could take 30 minutes at a quiet time of the day. At rush hour, it could take double that or even more.
With that in mind, nursing organisations are asking why would the Government be looking for a provision in a controversial new contract that would allow nurses working in Dublin to be moved between locations on opposite sides of the capital during a single shift, given the practical difficulties that may present.
Nursing unions and public service management will on Tuesday attend the Labour Court in a bid to resolve differences on a new contract which have complicated and could even threaten the proposed settlement to the recent nurses’ strike.
The introduction of a new contract formed a key element of the original Labour Court recommendation that led to the suspension of the strike.
Nurses had been seeking pay parity with other graduate-entry groups such as physiotherapists who, they maintained, earn about €7,000 a year more.
Under the proposals, a new enhanced
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The recent Terminator movie is what the last one SHOULD have been. No more time travelling - this is the period where the machines wake up, the
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human race hardens up, and the CIA stops pushing too many pencils. Terminator Salvation the game, is set just before the events of the movie, we reviewed it on PS3.
Terminator is a 3rd person cover shooter that you can play solo or split screen with someone next to you. The machines have some heavy duty firepower, so you and your squad will need to rely heavily on shoot & move tactics, which suits the movies perfectly. Each new room will contain several bits of cover, a la Gears of War, and your health won't go back up until the firefight is over. If you're pinned down on 10% health with no ammo, you're already dead. You just don't know it yet.
Emphasis is placed on flanking, and there's always some side path that'll take you right round the robotic rear. Even if they just follow you, you're squadmates are smart enough to pop em in the back.
Yeah, useful
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Although there's still room for improvement, streaming video content around your house (and beyond) has never been easier.
The popularity of media streaming
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devices such as Apple TV and the Xbox 360 has given a great boost to home theater. It begs the question of whether or not you can equip the vaunted "connected home" yet. We're close, but I think there's still some room for improvement, particularly with the various incompatible flavors of DRM out there. That said, there's a plethora of premium content out there for your viewing pleasure, and a growing number of devices to stream it and watch it on.
There are two ways to acquire content: record your own or download it. Each has its pluses and minuses, which I hope to discuss more over the next few months. Suffice to say that if you buy your TV commercial-free from the Apple iTunes store (we won't get into illicit downloads for now), you'll need Apple TV. If you record your own, you'll need a Media Center Edition (MCE) PC and an Xbox 360 with Media Center Extender. You can also buy and
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A police officer who was shot Tuesday while chasing suspects allegedly involved in a drive-by shooting, has died
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, police Chief Terry Zeigler said.
The officer was identified as Capt. Robert Melton. He was 46 years old and had been with the department for 17 years.
Zeigler told reporters the officer was looking for four people in a car some time before 2 p.m. when the vehicle was spotted and a chase began. The chase ended about two miles from where the suspects were initially reported to a 911 dispatcher.
"As Capt. Melton was arriving, the suspects bailed from the vehicle and opened fire," Zeigler said. "I don't have any more details than that."
Another officer who had just arrived called for assistance, police spokesman Thomas Tomasic said earlier during a briefing at the scene of the shooting.
Tomasic said he knew the officer who had been shot, calling him a "good friend, good person."
One person is in custody and two others who might be connected to the incident have been detained. Police are searching for
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The first freshman class selected to Florida's state college system since Gov. Jeb Bush put an end to race-based admissions has shown, instead of
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a decrease in minority enrollment, an increase of 12 percent.
Mr. Bush, whose plan allows the admission of the top 20 percent of graduating seniors from each state high school, whether predominantly black, white or Hispanic, said the increase was proof that diversity in other college systems could be accomplished without affirmative action.
''The most diverse in history,'' Mr. Bush said of the incoming freshmen, who are the first students to be admitted without affirmative action mandates since racial set-asides were put in place in Florida in 1978.
He said his plan, called One Florida, produced an incoming class of more than 40 percent minorities -- blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans -- and could be a model for other states whose affirmative action laws are being challenged in the courts or at the polls.
But critics of the plan say it is far too soon, after one year, to call the plan a success. Some experts on education reform called the new system a gimmick that simply gives affirmative action a
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Cardinal Joseph Zen, an 87-year-old native of Shanghai who served as bishop of Hong Kong, is a Chinese patriot and faithful Catholic
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He now finds himself at odds with both the atheist government that controls China and the Vatican bureaucracy that controls the foreign relations of the Holy See.
As of now, the atheist government in Beijing and the bureaucrats in the Vatican are acting as if they were allies, having signed a deal last September that neither the Vatican nor the communists have released to the public, and that will govern how Catholic bishops are appointed in China.
Cardinal Zen is speaking out against this deal and courageously explaining why it will hurt both the Chinese people and the Catholic Church.
The State Department’s most recent reports on human rights and religious freedom help put the deal in perspective.
Is China run by the Communist Party? Yes.
Is the Communist Party atheist? Yes.
Does China’s atheist regime try to force Catholics to act in ways that are contrary to their faith? Yes.
Since the communists seized power in 1949, the Catholic Church has been divided in China. There has
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If you’re like many of my clients, friends, and family, you’ve probably thought about using the Clifton Stre
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ngthsFinder as an assessment tool to select the right person for the job. “What a great matching tool,” you’ve said. “What a great way to predict how a person will act and react!” When people voice these thoughts to me, I want to mirror their excitement about the possibilities of exploring a person’s fit using their themes, but at the same time relay a cautionary tale from an evidenced-based and bias-laced perspective.
The scenario often goes like this: you’re hiring an HR professional for your organization. You’ve written the job profile, considered the necessary competencies and the needs of the team. You know who thrives in your organization and who just survives. The last person in the role was great at engaging the team, but didn’t think “big picture” enough or hold people accountable for performance. This time around, you’re not going to
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Facebook has been fined £500,000 by UK regulator the ICO over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
It's the maximum amount possible under
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law, but given Facebook's size it's just a slap on the wrist.
The regulator says Facebook broke the law, breaching the UK Data Protection Act twice.
British politicians are now calling on Facebook to be more transparent about its internal investigation into data misuse.
The British data regulator plans to fine Facebook the maximum amount possible over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
On Tuesday, the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office) announced that it will hit Facebook with a £500,000 (roughly $663,000) penalty over two breaches of the UK Data Protection Act linked to the incident, in which political research firm Cambridge Analytica misappropriated tens of millions of users' personal data.
"The ICO's investigation concluded that Facebook contravened the law by failing to safeguard people's information," the organisation said in a statement. "It also found that the company failed to be transparent about how people's data was harvested by others."
The sum is barely even a slap
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Lennie Gallant's beautiful new Christmas song with the Zimbabwean band Black Umfolosi started with a chance meeting in Charlottetown
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this summer.
Gallant ran into his former agent and friend Bob Jensen downtown, they hopped in Lennie's pickup to listen to some cuts from the album he'd just finished recording, Time Travel, as well as new music from Black Umfolosi, an internationally-renowned world music band from Zimbabwe for which Jensen is the North American agent.
"Every now and then something a little bit magical happens," said Jensen. "We just came up with this little idea over lunch!"
That "little idea" was that Lennie would record a song on P.E.I. with Black Umfolosi in August as they were taking a break during a tour of eastern Canada.
"And I thought that would be something, that would be really great! I wonder what we would sing?" Gallant recalls. "I thought it would be amazing to have them singing on a Christmas song — I should write one."
He'd heard Black Umfolosi before at festivals in
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French former culture minister Audrey Azoulay was named to head the UN's embattled cultural agency on Friday, beating her Qatari rival after a politically
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charged contest clouded by Gulf tensions and accusations of anti-Israel bias.
Azoulay, 45, came from behind to defeat Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari, also a former culture minister, after he failed to pick up support from other Gulf states which are part of a Saudi-led coalition blockading Qatar. The vote was 30 to 28.
The campaign to succeed UNESCO's outgoing chief Irina Bokova was overshadowed by Washington's announcement Thursday that it planned to withdraw from the Paris-based body after years of tensions over decisions seen as critical of Israel.
In the face of the Arab divisions, France presented Azoulay as a consensus figure who could mend fences and soothe tensions with Israel.
"In a time of crisis, we need more than ever to get involved (and) work to strengthen the organisation," Azoulay said after the final vote.
Azoulay, who is Jewish of Moroccan origin, will face the difficult task of
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Jan. 25, 2017 - PRLog -- During an era that harkens back to the
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Civil Rights Movement and the historic benchmark of Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation's 50th Anniversary, The Center for Arts & Culture teams up with the Cultural Museum of African Art to present Brooklyn is Africa: A Borough of Inclusion; A Continent of Invention to exhibit 50 rare African art pieces and artifacts from the collection of co-curator and founder at the Cultural Museum of African Arts Eric Edwards, son of Bedford Stuyvesant, and co-curator Hollis King, acclaimed Creative Director at The Center for Arts & Culture. This exhibition will occur at the Skylight Gallery at the Center for Arts & Culture, 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York from February 10th to April 28th.
The Skylight Gallery at The Center for Arts & Culture at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, first exhibiting in 1969, has been a powerful platform for visual artists of the African Diaspora in the heart of Brooklyn where the highest concentration of African Americans resides in the US.
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MTA fare increases set to take effect July 1, raising one-way rides by a quarter to $1.50 and monthly passes by $
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13 to $75, will be discussed at the agency’s board meeting Thursday, when members will consider setting a date for a public hearing to explain the rationale behind the hikes.
The increases, the first in two years, are meant to help make up for a $204 million deficit in its operating budget for buses and trains, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Public transit activists with the Bus Riders Union say the fare increases are ill-timed and will affect the working poor disproportionately.
“The monthly pass is going up by $13. That’s a meal on the table. The typical transit rider only makes about $12,000 to $17,000 a year,” Barbara Lott- Holland of the Bus Riders Union told The Times at rally Tuesday.
Daily passes will go from $5 to $6. Fares will not be raised for people with disabilities, students, Medicare recipients and people who are 62 or older.
The fare increase
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Brea police on Monday were working to identify the person who hid a small camera in a Starbucks bathroom.
Brea police say they found a
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tiny camera under a shelf in a Starbucks restroom. They tweeted out a photo of where the discovery was made.
The video recorder, which was about the size of a large pen, was mounted under a shelf in the restroom of the Starbucks located at 101 W. Imperial Highway (map), the Brea Police Department tweeted on Monday.
According to a news release from the department, a woman was using the restroom when she found the device. She removed the item and alerted police, who were initially unsure if the item was a camera.
Later, an Orange County Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory examined the device and determined it was a miniature video camera, the release stated.
An undisclosed number of people were recorded on the device, and an in-depth examination would be conducted to identify potential victims as well as the person who placed the camera in the bathroom, according to the release.
It was not immediately known how long the camera had been at the location before it was found.
The Bre
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Reclamos crowdsources consumer complaints to create and publish consumer satisfaction rates for Chilean companies and government agencies.
Reclamos.cl
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is a collaborative website that uses crowdsourced consumer complaints to create and publish consumer satisfaction rates for Chilean companies and government agencies. In practice, Reclamos (the Spanish word for “claim”) is a web platform that intelligently groups the negative opinions of users of certain services in order to achieve greater transparency in the consumer market and to exercise a kind of distributed control over commercial conditions and business practices in Chile.
Reclamos.cl receives complaints from users and keeps a database of each complaint’s origin, the identity of the user, and the type of claim. Random human oversight by a team of volunteers aims to prevent the publication of false claims and content not pertaining to the objectives of the website. The system is based on free software that tags companies with regular consumer problems.
While Reclamos.cl is configured as a collective system of claims, over time it has evolved into an important tool for consumer awareness in Chile. The project’s aggregate
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The Windsor AKO Fratmen turned the tables on the Hamilton Hurricanes to capture the team’s first Ontario Football Conference championship since 1999.
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Windsor, which suffered a 33-point defeat at home to the top-seeded Hurricanes in the regular season, never trailed Saturday in a 16-9 victory Saturday to capture the Teddy Morris Memorial Trophy at Hamilton’s St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School.
It was the first title as head coach for Mike LaChance, who was making his fifth appearance in final in 10 years of guiding the team.
LaChance also credited AKO defensive coordinator Mike Morencie, who upset the timing of the high-scoring Hamilton offence by refusing to blitz and had his players drop into coverage the entire game.
“We watched the film and saw where they beat us,” Crumb said. “We played a lot of coverage and manned up their best receivers.
Crumb notched his first of three interceptions on Hamilton’s opening possession and it set up the first of three Anthony Malandruccolo field goals to put AKO on the
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education will commemorate the 30th anniversary of Edwin E. Gordon
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's acclaimed research defining music learning theory, published while he was director of music education at UB in the 1970s, from 5-8 p.m. July 30 in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
Gordon, an internationally recognized scholar in music learning theory and the psychology of music, was director of music education in the UB Graduate School of Education from 1972 until 1979, when he went to Temple University in Philadelphia to become the Carl E. Seashore Professor of Research in Music Education.
During the 1970s, Gordon spent a critical portion of his career at UB, researching and defining music learning theory, and coining the term "audiation" -- the cognitive process by which the brain comprehends music -- along the way.
He went on to become an internationally recognized scholar, featured often in the media, from NBC's "Today Show" to The New York Times. He is author of six highly regarded music apt
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WASHINGTON — An effort to slash the Pentagon’s so-called fourth-estate, back-office agencies was weakened but not slain Wednesday at
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the House Armed Services Committee’s markup of its version of the annual defense policy bill.
The panel voted to overrule its own chairman, Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, to protect the Defense Department’s Test Resource Management Center, which oversees weapons testing and evaluation. Thornberry is spearheading plans to enact deep cuts to Pentagon support agencies.
California Republican Rep. Steve Knight prevailed in a mostly party-line 33-28 vote to protect the agency, where two Democrats and eight Democrats crossed sides.
The panel, where Republicans hold a 34-28 majority, voted on party lines to reject an amendment blocking the draft bill’s plan to dismantle the Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA.
Democratic Rep. Anthony Brown, who represents Maryland — home to many federal employees — had offered the DISA-protecting amendment, proposing Congress ask the Pentagon for a report in advance of any consolidation, but to no avail.
Brown also offered an amendment
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Which would you rather see: a rare Nepalese gharial or a common vole? Even without knowing what these animals are, you
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might be more intrigued by the gharial, simply because it is rare. This is the conclusion of research published in the journal Public Library of Science ONE.
The researchers say that labeling endangered animals as “rare,” may harm the species, raising its value and so putting it at greater risk of being exploited within the illegal pet-trade, for either medicines or exotic zoos.
Scientists created a Web site where users could view images of either “rare” or “common” animals. When users clicked on one of the two options, up popped a progress bar showing the images in the process of downloading. But, irritatingly, the download took a whopping six minutes (although users did have the option to cancel). When the download finally completed, the images were designed not to show up!
Well, significantly more users chose the rare slideshow, waited for it to download and often tried again after it didn’t work. So, maybe
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Pernell Flett is operator of Neechi Rides, a volunteer ride service he is operating by himself to help indigenous people get safe
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transportation.
This article was published 31/1/2016 (1177 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A Facebook post about threatening and racist behaviour by a taxi cab driver toward Rosanna Deerchild over the weekend has sparked a new idea for safe transportation for indigenous women in Winnipeg.
Winnipeg artist Jackie Traverse started a unique ride-sharing group called “Ikwe (women helping women safe ride)” on Facebook on Sunday afternoon after hearing about what happened Friday night to Deerchild, an indigenous woman who is the well-known host of CBC Radio’s Unreserved program.
Deerchild’s post stated that the driver of a taxi cab she had hired to take her to her home Friday night from the King’s Head Pub threatened her and drove her to the Main Street Project and ordered her to get out after she took a photo of his cab number.
“As I always do —
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The list of nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame were announced Thursday night (Jan. 9). Among the 15 names are first-year nominees
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Derrick Brooks, Tony Dungy, Marvin Harrison, and Walter Jones, reports ESPN.
Brooks was a linebacker with Tampa Bay; Dungy coached Tampa Bay and Indianapolis, leading the Colts to a Super Bowl title in 2007; Harrison was a receiver for Indianapolis; and Jones was an offensive tackle with Seattle.
Others finalists include former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, defensive end/linebacker Charles Haley, defensive end/linebacker Kevin Greene, receiver Andre Reed, running back Jerome Bettis, receiver/returner Tim Brown, safety John Lynch, guard Will Shields, cornerback/safety Aeneas Williams, kicker Morten Andersen and former San Francisco owner Edward DeBartolo Jr.
The 15 finalists were chosen by the selection committee from a list of 126 nominees that was reduced to 25 semifinalists, before each received a minimum vote of 80 percent to reach the final round of voting. The nominees are to be voted upon on Feb. 1st in New York by a
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The driver of the bus has been charged with DUI, among other charges.
The bus was taking 18 passengers from Atlanta to the tournament in Augusta
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when it crashed Thursday morning on Interstate 20.
Sixteen people were transported to area hospitals to be treated for injuries received in the crash. He bonded out of the Columbia County Detention Center Friday afternoon.
A passenger injured when a charter bus crashed on the way to the Masters golf tournament says he's thankful "everybody's alive". 18 people were onboard the bus.
Check back for the latest updates.
Sixty-one-year-old Steven Hoppenbrouwer is also charged with failure to maintain lane.
The bus is owned by Jet Executive Limousine, GSP said.
The bus overturned in the median. Doctors Hospital reports that their trauma services team was activated at 9:04 a.m. and is treating nine patients whose conditions range from critical to good. Five were in serious condition and two in fair condition, according to the Gwinnett Daily Post.
Now we have 7 people in the hospital, instead of at Amen Corner eating a p
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Red Bluff >> State Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber, and Tehama County Supervisor Bob Williams and have been fined $10
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,000 and $13,000 respectively for campaign finance violations stemming from Williams’ unsuccessful 2012 run for the California Assembly.
The California Fair Political Practices Commission released a report this week on its website detailing “an earmarked, over-the-limit contribution” to Williams’ campaign totaling $4,320 to pay for a radio advertisement supporting Williams. Individual contributions are limited to $3,900, which Nielsen made. The larger contribution was made through the Tehama County Republican Central Committee and was earmarked for Williams in violation of campaign finance law, the report said.
In addition, Nielsen filed a campaign statement for the first half of 2012 “erroneously reporting information regarding that contribution,” the report said.
For his part, Williams, Friends of Williams and Friends of Williams treasurer David Bauer violated rules when they accepted the over-the-limit contribution from Taxpayers for Nielsen and filed a campaign statement for May 20 through June 30, 2012, errone
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More toymakers should take a page from Lego’s book and let fans contribute fun and creative ideas. The Lego Ideas site has delivered
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some of the most desirable sets of the past few years, and next to your brick-built Ecto-1 and time-traveling DeLorean, it’s finally time to make room on your shelf for Lego’s new Tron: Legacy light cycles set.
Originally approved for production back in late November of last year, the light cycle design that BrickBros UK submitted to the Lego Ideas site looks significantly updated and streamlined by Lego’s own designers for the production version of this set. But the changes certainly seem to benefit fans of Tron: Legacy, as the set now includes two light cycles, and three minifigure versions of Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), Quorra (Olivia Wilde), and Rinzler (Anis Cheurfa), complete with identity discs.
At just 230 pieces when available starting on March 31, Lego’s $35 Tron: Legacy set is certainly on the smaller side, but
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Losses are either worse than expected, or much worse, depending on which numbers you use.
Shares of independent oil and gas exploration and
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production company Bill Barrett Corporation (NYSE:HPR) are down 9.9% (as of 3:15 p.m. EST) after the company reported earnings Friday.
Bill Barrett reported a net loss of $0.79 per share for its fiscal fourth quarter, far worse than the $0.13 per share loss that Wall Street had projected. (Admittedly, Wall Street often couches predictions in terms of pro forma earnings, but even there, Bill Barrett says that its adjusted, pro forma loss was $0.18 per share -- still a nickel below expectations.) For the year, Bill Barrett's GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) loss was $3.08 per share.
CEO Scot Woodall blamed the weak results on "a challenging year of lower oil prices," arguing that despite the numbers "we did an excellent job of managing through the downturn and executing on our financial and operational goals," and insisting that management did the best it could with "
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The primary responsibility of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) is to better prepare the State of Illinois for natural, manmade or technological disasters
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, hazards, or acts of terrorism. Our goal is a "better prepared state." IEMA coordinates the State's disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery programs and activities, functions as the State Emergency Response Commission, and maintains a 24-hour Communication Center and State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC). The SEOC acts as lead in crisis/consequence management response and operations to notify, activate, deploy and employ state resources in response to any threat or act of terrorism. IEMA assists local governments with multi-hazard emergency operations plans and maintains the Illinois Emergency Operations Plan.
IEMA is also responsible for protecting Illinois residents from the potentially harmful effects of ionizing radiation, administering more than two dozen programs to protect citizens and the environment. Programs include extensive emergency planning and response efforts and training for local responders for accidents involving radiation; inspecting and regulating radioactive materials licensees; registering and inspecting radiation producing equipment and facilities statewide; accrediting medical radiation technologists; and certifying mammography facilities.
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In true Savannah fashion, the city offers everything you can think of for Valentine's Day celebrations, from the romantic to the ghostly. See our
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events list below, and find dining specials in our Dine Savannah column at dosavannah.com.
Beer + Pizza Date Night: 4-9 p.m. Feb. 14; Service Brewing Co., 574 Indian St.; free admission, 21 and older; servicebrewing.com. Big Bon Pizza will be on hand from 5:30-8:30 p.m., and Service will release The Love Boat, a bourbon barrel-aged chocolate cherry stout. Leashed dogs welcome.
Valentine’s Day weddings: Every 10 minutes from 5-7 p.m. Feb. 14; Davenport House Museum, 324 E. State St.; $100 donation; 912-236-8097; davenporthousemuseum.org. Get married in the museum’s courtyard garden.
Valentine's at Two Tides: 5 p.m.-midnight Feb. 14; Two Tides Brewing Co., 12
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This matter was brought to our attention by Claudia Millerbragg, a reader who has been battling bureaucracy to bring more veterans’ services representatives to
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rural East County.
Our investigation found that Veterans in wealthy coastal areas and North county communities have been getting better access to veterans’ services than those in rural areas or inner city communities. Wealthy areas like La Jolla have veterans’ service reps visit 12 days each month. Clairemont Mesa has services daily, while Oceanside, Escondido, and Chula Vista all have services anywhere from 12 to 20 days each month. There are also visits to caastal communities that are very close together such as Carlsbad and Encinitas.
But in East County, there are no services at all east of La Mesa – and a rep only comes to La Mesa on Fridays. That means a disabled veteran in places like Jacumba, Borrego or Julian could have a drive of two to four hours round trip for services – in areas with No public transportation.
The County representatives help veterans access services such as counseling, VA loans, educational, health and job training
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It’s 2024: Guess What’s Not in Your Wallet?
Last year, one in three victims who had their financial accounts
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hacked experienced identify fraud, according to a recent study from the National Consumer League.
Data breaches have become so prevalent that they've grown to be part of the public consciousness, and they haven't shifted our purchasing methods: Americans continue to whip out plastic 66% of the time we make a purchase.
The convenience and habit of credit cards outweigh the potential risk of having your identity stolen or bank account sucked dry. In addition, Javelin senior analyst Nick Holland points out that “consumers have a short memory, [and are also] well-protected by their credit card companies” in terms of limiting their liability for unauthorized purchases.
Holland explains that even though we reacted with "shock and horror" following the massive Target (NYSE:TGT) data breach at the end of 2013, there is an upside: The incident forced the public and the government to finally address the vulnerabilities of our current system.
Having to sign a
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Aspect has a new CEO, part of a complicated situation that saw the exit of one recent group CEO over a non-compete agreement dispute
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In addition, Mohamad Ali, who was announced as CEO of Aspect's workforce optimization group only eight weeks ago in what was to be a dual-CEO structure with Foy, is no longer with Aspect. According to the company, Ali exited Aspect following a legal dispute with Ali's former employer, Avaya, that would have prevented Ali's working at Aspect.
Bloom, a 28-year technology veteran, was most recently CEO of Escalate Retail, a Golden Gate Capital company that was acquired by RedPrairie Corp. in 2011. He previously served as CEO for GERS Retail Systems and held various executive positions with Capgemini, Mainspring, Ernst & Young and DSSI.
"Aspect is an asset-rich organization at a time when enterprise businesses are rethinking how they compete through differentiated customer experiences," Bloom said in a statement. "This is a pivotal time for the company to capitalize on its technologies, strategic investments
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President Obama just got trolled on Snapchat by his youngest daughter, Sasha.
And, though the leader of the free world may be popular for
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his orations across the nation, his daughters might be the exception to this rule.
As Obama explained to Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel during an appearance on Tuesday, Sasha Obama is constantly blanking his "Dad talks" — and then broadcasting them on Snapchat without his knowledge.
During a dinner one night, Obama revealed to his daughter that he was fascinated by the fact that Snapchat was "becoming so popular" among her age group and asked her to take him through the ins and outs of the app. Sasha quickly taught him how to scroll through the home feed, change filters, make faces and send them out.
"At the end of it, Michelle and I are sitting there and I said, 'Isn't this interesting.' And I started talking to Michelle about the implications of social media and what all this means," Obama told Kimmel, who aired a short clip of the president teasing his daughters' obsession with texting and selfies at a high school event last week.
Little did he know
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Take it from us: if you want to keep something under wraps, don't bring it on a plane and hold it up
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where someone can snap a photo. Especially if you're Kanye West.
Joining the mile-high club is, what has been confirmed by anonymous sources who have held these shoes in their hands at adidas HQ, the Kanye West x adidas "Yeezi." An unveiling will take place in the near future, but this is the best, and only, look thus far.
What we can see is a tan upper, that looks like nubuck, mid with a zip up the side, with a loop, fabric lacing system. A ribbed single unit sole reaches from end to end. Like all Yeezys/Yeezis we've seen, there's a strap across the laces.
These are certainly a step in a new direction for the rapper/collaborator. The shape and details are much more in the fashionable arena of his early work, and leaving behind the sports influence. Stay
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Vancouver mayoral hopeful Shauna Sylvester has a proposal she says could provide relief for the city's struggling small businesses.
Vancouver mayoral
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hopeful Shauna Sylvester has a proposal she says could provide relief for the city’s small businesses struggling with ever-rising property taxes.
But while many in the business community have long called for tax reform, some have questions about the details of Sylvester’s idea.
At various campaign events, including Sunday’s candidates’ town hall in Chinatown, Sylvester has raised her proposal to look at creating a new subcategory for small, local businesses so they could pay a lower property-tax rate.
Most businesses in Vancouver pay what’s known as triple-net leases, meaning tenants are responsible not only for paying the landlord the rent, but also maintenance fees and property taxes. Typically, when the assessed value goes up dramatically for a big multi-tenant commercial building, the property owner isn’t the one on the hook for the bill — it’s the tenants.
Sylvester, who previously sat on
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Jeff Nielson is a writer, editor and managing partner of Bullion Bulls Canada, a precious metals Web site he founded with two partners in 2008
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. Bullion Bulls Canada provides precious metals commentary, economic analysis and mining information for its global audience. Jeff's academic background inlcudes four years of economics, along with a law degree obtained from the University of Biritish Columbia in 1989. Since then, he has published about 1,000 commentaries on mainstream news and precious metals Web sites around the world.
Stephen Harper squirreled his way into office, and soon he may be leading Canada toward a massive bailout.
Don't trust the banks. Your deposits aren't safe from a Cyprus-style bail-in.
The bank robbery committed in Cyprus was based upon blatantly fraudulent reasoning.
This time it was stealing money out of bank accounts. Next time it might be confiscating pensions. The blueprint is in place.
All of the so-called bailouts have involved lending more money to already insolvent entities, thus feeding the beast.
Why Are Central Banks Buying Gold?
The message here: Sell your
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I am deeply ashamed of my behavior and make no excuse for it. I don't know if these statements are too frequent, or not shared often
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enough, but I am certain that my actions warrant a very sincere apology to the arresting officers, and I am grateful for their restraint. The severity of my behavior is not lost on me.
Apologizing for his actions was a good start. In the Twitter statement, Shia LaBeouf also recommitted himself to working on his sobriety. This part was, perhaps, the most important piece of the message, as his most recent blunder hinged upon alcohol... as did many of his past mistakes.
My outright disrespect for authority is problematic to say the least, and completely destructive to say the worst. It is a new low. A low I hope is a bottom. I have been struggling with addiction publicly for far too long, and I am actively taking steps toward securing my sobriety and hope I can be forgiven for my mistakes.
If Shia LaBeouf plans to work on his sobriety and recover, he has plenty of people to whom he can turn
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Images of the Duke of Windsor meeting Adolf Hitler during a 1937 visit remain controversial. As 60 photos showing the duke and his new wife meeting the
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Nazi leadership sell at auction for £6,830, BBC News examines the story behind the pictures.
The unofficial royal visit to Germany caused much controversy and the former King Edward VIII has since faced numerous accusations of being a Nazi sympathiser.
However, royal historian Carolyn Harris said his motives were "peaceful" and linked to the acceptance of his new wife, the American divorcee Wallis Simpson, for whom he had abdicated as king in 1936.
She said the duke was "eager to carve out a new role for himself and ensure that his wife was treated as a full member of the Royal Family even though she had not received the title of Her Royal Highness - an issue that was of great concern to the duke".
She added: "There was no precedent for an abdicated sovereign assuming an active public role on behalf of the current sovereign and the Duke of Windsor was frustrated that he appeared to be expected to live a quiet life in exile."
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In October, when David O’Connor last visited Brazil as part of a decade-long research program studying drug-resistant strains of HIV,
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one of his Brazilian collaborators had a request.
“He asked about using some of the technologies we have developed to look for new viruses to study some unusual cases of a birth defect, microcephaly, in the north of Brazil,” says O’Connor, a University of Wisconsin–Madison pathology professor.
The babies born with underdeveloped brains and small heads were the relatively quiet beginning of worry over the spread of Zika virus, concern that has grown louder outside Brazil with an international outbreak and emergency attention from public health officials around the world.
That planning will soon culminate in some of the first experiments studying Zika virus in monkeys, conducted by a broad UW–Madison team that includes the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center and expertise in infectious disease, pregnancy and neurology.
Pathobiological sciences Professor Jorge Osorio and research scientist Matthew Aliota, who were first to identify the Zika virus circulating in Colombia in October, provided essential Zika virology expertise. Ted Golos
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To celebrate Bicycle Day on April 19th, the date of Albert Hofmann’s — and the world’s first LSD trip in
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1943, we are publishing this excerpt from the forthcoming interview with Michael Horowitz — the third installment of the Acid Bodhisattva series, coming soon to Timothy Leary Archives.
Images: from Lysergic World (April, 1993): Albert Hofmann in 1977 (above), and the route of his famous bicycle ride on LSD through Basel, Switzerland on April 19, 1943, from Sandoz Laboratories to his house.
Below, Leary's archivist Michael Horowitz reminisces about a car ride with Albert Hofmann and Timothy Leary in February 1972.
"Tim and I took the train to Basel where Albert picked us up in his car. He drove, Tim sat in the passenger seat and me in back, trying to manage a super 8mm movie camera with one hand and a tape recorder with the other. Albert told us that we were driving the route of his first LSD trip in 1943, when he bicycled home with his Sandoz lab assistant after testing 250 micrograms
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SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii-- CS Gas or tear gas -- it's a smell that's familiar to most in the military.
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Your skin begins to tingle as you approach the room as soon as the canisters are opened.
As you step inside the back of your neck feels hot. The muffled yells of the instructor order you to remove your mask. The first deep breath without a gas mask creates an uncomfortable situation.
Soldiers of Echo Company, 65th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, conducted Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear training (CBRN) on Feb. 5, here on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
The training is done to prepare Soldiers for chemical attacks. Chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, commonly referred to as CS gas or tear gas is used to train Soldiers within the gas chamber.
Soldiers began the morning by lining up outside of the chamber doing checks on their masks to ensure their equipment works properly.
"Having confidence in your equipment is what can ultimately determine mission success," said
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Two teens commiserate while stranded in a hospital, suffering from cystic fibrosis.
Five Feet Apart is actually not as depressing, predictable
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or even as sappy as one might preconceive. The main character, Stella (Haley Lu Richardson, Columbus), appears to have a fixation with newborns and frequents the natal care unit window to gaze upon delicate and pristine life. It is there where she is first approached by Will (Cole Sprouse, TV’s “Riverdale”), though they maintain a distance mandated by their shared battles with cystic fibrosis.
Naturally, the typical teenage cat-and-mouse antics ensue, but in this case, a distinct hint of Russian roulette is propositioned as well. Will initially is seemingly much more pessimistic and resigned than Stella. Privately, she is dealing with a fresh, unrelated and unexpected family loss. She is actually quite prudish and OCD in many ways, more than likely directly related to her personal trauma.
On the cusp of adulthood, the slightly older Will prefers to throw caution to the wind. He starts out by rebelling
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Alkins celebrated his first start of the season by scoring a career-high 26 points on 9-for-11 shooting to lead UA to an
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89-73 win over New Mexico.
ALBUQUERQUE — A half-hour after his team successfully waded through a torrent of presses at a mile-high altitude, their ears ringing from fan noise that rivals McKale Center on its very best days, Sean Miller stood against a wall for a postgame interview.
His Arizona Wildcats had beaten New Mexico 89-73 at The Pit, so it was time to exhale at a place that tries to remind him he’s not supposed to.
Miller didn’t appear to notice the psychological trick and his players didn’t, either. They shot a season-best 64 percent against the Lobos and, perhaps more impressively, turned the ball over just 10 times against a team that typically forces double that amount.
They had no worries. Especially with Rawle Alkins.
The sophomore forward, who had a career-high 26 points in his first start of the season following a 10-
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(Reuters) - Estonian Anett Kontaveit recovered from a set and a break down to beat ninth seed Sloane Stephens 4
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-6 7-5 6-4 in the first round of the Wuhan Open on Sunday.
Kontaveit made a strong start, racing into a 3-0 lead in the opening set before Stephens fought back from behind the baseline, winning six of the final seven games to go a set up.
The American got an early break in the second but stumbled at 4-3, making several errors to allow Kontaveit to break back before the Estonian leveled the match at a set apiece.
Kontaveit stayed on top in the decider, and hit 34 winners compared to 20 from Stephens.
Earlier, Russian 13th seed Daria Kasatkina beat Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko for the first time in her career to reach round two.
Kasatkina won 6-4 7-5 and will face either Bernarda Pera or Chinese qualifier Wang Xiyu next.
Wang’s compatriot Zhang Shu
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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Once again, the Raising Cane’s River Center is transforming its
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arena into a “Winter Wonderland” just in time for families to make lasting holiday memories.
This year, Ice Skating on the River is sponsored by Cirque du Soleil CRYSTAL. Opening night is Friday, Dec. 21 and will feature the Coca-Cola Santa Truck.
“Ice Skating on the River has been a Baton Rouge holiday tradition for many years. We are proud to team up with Cirque du Soleil CRYSTAL and bring great fun and adventure to everyone in the Capital region,” said Michael Day, general manager of the River Center.
The event will have 90-minute skating sessions almost every day from Dec. 21 through Dec. 31. Tickets are on sale for $12 to $14 per person, with special group rates available for parties of more than ten people. Birthday packages are also available. For more information on those, call 225-389-3030.
Tickets are available at the River Center box
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The Supreme Court invalidated Trevor Ozawa's win over Tommy Waters for the district four seat Friday.
One City Council candidate getting ready to hit
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the campaign trail. The other told KITV4 on Saturday night, he's considering legal action.
Accusations of cronyism, dirty politics, and political bias: Trevor Ozawa told KITV4 he's thinking about filing a federal courts appeal after the Supreme Court invalidated Ozawa's win over Tommy Waters for the district four seat on Friday. Ozawa raised red flags about the way the Justices handled the petition.
City Council District 4, which runs from Waikiki to Hawaii Kai hasn't been represented since January 2. The council plans to appoint an interim person.
Meanwhile, Ozawa raised concerns about the fairness of the court's decision.
"Justices Wilson, McKenna and Pollack were all nominated to the court by Mr. Waters when Mr. Waters served on the judicial selection commission. So Mr. Waters was directly involved in putting them on
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President Donald Trump thank his daughter, American Workforce Policy Advisory Board co-chair Ivanka Trump, during the advisory board's first meeting in the State
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Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019.
President Donald Trump's 2020 budget proposal will include $100 million for a global women's fund spearheaded by his daughter Ivanka Trump.
She said the budget, expected to be released Monday, will include the funding for the Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative. The administration last month launched the government-wide project, which she leads.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Ivanka Trump noted that Friday was International Women's Day and stressed the initiative's goal to help 50 million women in the developing world get ahead economically over the next six years.
The new initiative involves the State Department, the National Security Council and other agencies, as it aims to coordinate current programs and develop new ones to help women in areas such as job training, financial support and legal or regulatory reforms.
The funding will come through the U.S. Agency for International Development, which initially set up a $50 million fund for
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I am a veteran of the Vietnam War, where I served in Army aviation as a crew chief/door gunner in 1968-69. We
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flew in Hueys and supported ground operations all over South Vietnam. I was actively involved in the Tet Offensive and was proud to have flown more than 800 combat hours.
My mission was to protect my fellow soldiers while helping the innocent victims of a thankless war.
I survived my military experience with no physical damage, yet I still feel the burden of the huge responsibility we had as we did our jobs as U.S. soldiers. My heart swells with pride as I remember how difficult it was to go back into battle day after day, yet we knew the need to do so.
Our servicemen and women are always in harm's way, and they may sometimes question if Americans at home are doing the right things today. Many of us know all too well that our way of life still depends on the capable military people who are doing so many amazing jobs.
Our children's future depends on the positive outcome of the critical job they are doing. God bless them always.
I
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1947: Capt. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager pilots the rocket-powered Bell X-1 to a speed of Mach
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1.07, becoming the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. In breaking the sound barrier, Yeager becomes the fastest man alive — and the legend of the X-Planes begins.
As airplanes flew faster and faster throughout the 1930s, pilots began to experience a number of problems associated with the increased airspeed. Aircraft such as the Lockheed P-38 and Republic P-47 flew just fine at ordinary speeds in level flight. But if pilots put them in a high-speed dive, they began to experience control problems that led to the deaths of several pilots.
The main problem facing these pilots was the aerodynamic condition known as compressibility. Simply stated, at speeds well below the speed of sound, most of the air molecules have time to get out of the way of an aircraft as it approaches, and the density of the air does not change.
However, as the speed of sound is approached, the air molecules can’t get out of the
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Despite the plunging sales, Cliffs Natural Resources managed to only lose a penny per share in the quarter.
Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE
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:CLF) announced its second-quarter results late last night. The iron ore producer reported revenue of $1.1 billion and a net loss of $2 million or a penny per share. The company's revenue plunged 26% over last year's second quarter as a result of decreased market pricing for both iron ore and metallurgical coal. On top of that the company experienced a 24% decrease in sales volumes for U.S. iron ore.
Cliffs Natural Resources CEO Gary Halverson noted in the company's press release that it took, "prudent and decisive action to optimize the business in the face of continued commodity pricing pressure." That action resulted in the company slashing its capital spending by 77% or $210 million from last year's second quarter. Further, the company also cut its SG&A and exploration expenses by 24% from the year ago quarter.
These actions, when combined with an income tax benefit of $69 million, still couldn't help Cliffs
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A city bus carrying 31 people plunged off a bridge here and plowed through the outer edge of an apartment roof this afternoon after the driver was shot
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by a passenger. The driver, and a person suspected of shooting the driver, were both killed, the police said. The 29 others were injured.
The two-section bus was just starting to cross Aurora Avenue Bridge, which spans the Lake Union ship canal, about 3:10 P.M. when the driver was shot by a passenger, the police said. The bus, heading south, jumped a lane of northbound traffic, hit a van, then crashed through a guardrail and fell 50 feet, landing upright in an apartment garden in the Fremont district, an area of residential buildings, restaurants and businesses.
Police officers did not disclose a motive for the shooting. They said that two people were involved, and that the second person was among the injured taken to the hospital. The gun was recovered at the hospital, the police said.
Witnesses described a scene of panic as people with broken bones and bleeding cuts tried to crawl out of the bus. Rescue officials pulled out several
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The Canada Revenue Agency has announced that the maximum pensionable earnings under the CPP for 2019 will be $57,400, up from $55
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,900 in 2018.
Contributors who earn more than $57,400 won’t be permitted to make additional contributions to the CPP. The basic exemption amount for 2019 remains $3,500.
The RRSP dollar limit, another indexed figure, has also been updated for 2019, and will be $26,500—up from $26,230 this year.
The TFSA limit for 2019 will be officially announced later this year.
Employee and employer CPP contribution rates for 2019 will be 5.1%, up from 4.95% in 2018.
Meanwhile, the self-employed contribution rate will be 10.2%, up from 9.9% in 2018. This increase is due to the CPP enhancement that will be implemented on Jan. 1.
The maximum employer and employee contribution to the CPP for next year will be $2,748.90 each, and the maximum self-employed contribution will be $5,497.80
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RICHMOND HILL--Liberty County scored 25 points before Richmond Hill ever picked up a first down, en route to a 32-
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13 win to spoil the Wildcats' homecoming Friday night.
The Panthers were led by sophomore Shadrach Thornton's 160 yards and one touchdown on 23 carries.
"Last year he showed some glimpses that he could be a real good running back," said Liberty County coach Kirk Warner. "Coming into this season we didn't know if he could be a 20 to 25 carry-per-game back, but he has definitely answered the bell, and we are going to ride him through the playoffs."
For a while, the Panthers' (7-3 overall, 4-2 Region 3-AAA) scores came in rapid succession.
The first came when quarterback Julian Stokes took the ball in from 2 yards out with 6:39 left to play in the first quarter. Matt Desbiens' kick was good.
The Wildcats (3-6, 0-5) fumbled on their first play from scrimmage after the kickoff. Thornton scored one play later on a 9
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Reputational risk is not necessarily about right or wrong.
When Barclays Africa announced that it would sever ties with its external auditor KPMG
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, it said it could no longer support its reappointment in light of “ongoing and more recent developments”.
After KPMG admitted that its processes failed when it conducted work for Gupta-owned companies and had to withdraw parts of a forensic report into the “covert” unit at the South African Revenue Service, recent admissions that partners did not fully declare their interests while auditing VBS Mutual Bank seem to have been the last straw.
Barclays was quick to point out that it was “satisfied with the quality of the audit of the 2017 annual financial statements”. And just in case this wasn’t enough to allay any fears, it added: “[The audit] was conducted jointly with EY”.
When Redefine Properties announced its separation from the audit firm one day later, its CEO, Andrew Konig, was much more frank: “Redefine’s reputation is everything
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FORMBY Lawn Tennis Club first team had a good 14-2 victory over Sphynx.
Mens: A.McGib
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bon and D.Steele 6-4, 6-4; Ladies: J.Mulliner and G.Richardson 6-1, 6-2.
Mens: A.McGibbon and D.Steele 6-4, 6-4; Ladies: J.Mulliner and G.Richardson 6-1, 6-2. Mixed: A.McGibbon and J.Mulliner 6-5, 6-3; D.Steele and P.Bentham 6-5, 6-4; M.McDonald and G.Richardson 6-2, 3-6; S.Cray and J.Bienias 6-1, 6-3.
The second team had a good 12-4 win at Moor Park.
Mens: N.Tolman and B.Bienias 6-4, 6-1; C.Lewis and S.Burn
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Guiyu is the town in China where your old electronics go to die. For years, it's been one of the main locations in the
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world where PCs, phone and other discarded products are shipped in to be pulled apart and recycled. The work is dirty and even hazardous, but lately Guiyu has been trying to clean up its act. Following is a slideshow to give you an idea what it's like.
Foxconn is transforming the area around its factory in Zhengzhou, China. Here's a visual tour of the scene.
The deadly explosion that rocked the Chinese city of Tianjin has caused the country to shut down a nearby supercomputer, also one of the fastest in the world.
Drones that fly out to inspect powerlines -- and then recharge themselves by attaching to those same lines -- is among the ideas that could come to life thanks to a new research fund launched Tuesday.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton last week spelled out her renewable energy policy plans: Have more than half a billion solar panels installed throughout the nation in her first term and generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America.
IBM
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GAFFNEY, SC-- Charles James Herald, 84, of 317 Alma Street, formerly of Logan, WV, went home to be with
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the Lord on Monday, March 28, 2011, at the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville, NC.
Born in Logan, WV, he was the husband of Helen McMakin Cowart Herald for 33 years and son of the late Boyd Vinson Herald and Ona Dingess Herald. Mr. Herald was a World War II U. S. Army veteran, serving in the Pacific Theater. He received various commendations in his time of service, including the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Bronze Star and several other awards. He was a retired contractor and member of Beaverdam Baptist Church where he was a former music director and honorary lifetime deacon. Mr. Herald was an alumnus of Fruitland Bible Institute, an ordained minister of the gospel and served as a missionary in several fields.
Surviving, in addition to his wife, are six children, Charlotte H. Mills (Douglas J.) of Gaffney, Charles Randall Herald (Kathleen) of Augusta,
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ARSENAL icon Martin Keown has questioned whether Antonio Conte still has the support of his Chelsea players.
The former Gunners defender says
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the signs of Premier League champion's collapse have been appearing since the start of the season.
"Chelsea are struggling," he wrote in his column for the Daily Mail.
"Teams are now looking at their system and finding ways to punish them.
"The game was up when they were beaten by Manchester City. Chelsea knew they were second best that evening.
"For the City players, their toughest test of the season came against Napoli, not the English champions.
He's the of ex-Liverpool star on Chelsea and Arsenal's radar. And Peter Gulacsi's glamorous other half Diana Gulacsi-Vigh frequently sends pulses soaring with her racy Instagram postings.
"Chelsea have looked like conceding in almost every match this season.
"They may have showed fight to come back from 2-1 down to beat Watford but they could easily have lost that game.
"Antonio Conte has talked about hunger and hard work but really it
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Marguerita Vonral says she grew up on a "rough" Glasgow housing estate but she always knew she was different.
This could be
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because she was the granddaughter of one of the city's most-feared gangsters, Walter Norval.
Marguerita, who is now 34, admits she comes from a crime family but assures everyone: "I'm not a criminal".
Mags - as she is often known - was brought up in Milton by her mum and two sisters.
She says her "granda" was her father figure.
He was also widely known as Glasgow's original "Godfather".
Norval started his criminal career at a young age working for Glasgow's top crooks.
Throughout the 60s and 70s he created his own gangster empire, including pubs and clubs, with money he made from protection rackets and later armed robbery.
Unlike other gangsters, he is said to have refused to get involved in drug-dealing.
Norval was jailed for 14 years in 1977.
He died in 2014, aged 85.
Marguerita told the BBC
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Looking to capitalize on cable's trend toward reality and documentary programming, former pay-per-view executive Rick Blume has quietly
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launched a digital service that offers long-form nonfiction shows.
The independently owned Chronicle DTV service is telecasting a blend of documentary and reality programming that's not seen on other television outlets, said Blume, who launched Action Pay-Per-View in the early 1990s.
The service, which has distribution deals through OlympuSAT and some small operators, offers programming from domestic and international documentary producers.
Blume said he is proffering a $1.50 per-subscriber launch fee for one year, with another three free years for operators who commit to a multiyear agreement. After that, the network would charge 5 cents per month per subscriber.
Blume is projecting 100,000 subscribers by year-end.
Approximately 4,000 documentaries are produced each year, said Blume, but most are never seen due to a lack of outlets for distribution. True to the network's tagline, "
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Swiss power gear company ABB (s abb) has made another investment in tech that can make data centers more energy-efficient. Thursday
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morning, ABB says it has acquired controlling interest — through its venture arm (ABB Technology Ventures) — in Validus DC Systems, an 11-year-old company that makes power systems for data centers that utilize direct current (DC), which can make data centers more energy-efficient.
I’m hearing the deal is a large — eight-figure — buyout of existing shareholders, which included Oak Hill Ventures and Validus management, and a new $8 million Series B investment. The investment could also essentially be a two-step M&A, where ABB would have first dibs to buy the company outright at a later date. Validus previously raised at least $10 million from Oak Hill Ventures.
Validus DC Systems sells data center power supply systems, along with converters and data center gear, based on DC tech. DC technology is more energy-efficient than AC (there is less energy lost in the transmission) and is also less complex and the
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Shazam is the #1 movie in the US; latest box office figures show
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the super hero adventure brought in about 25-point-1 million dollars -- putting it at number 1. Coming in second was the comedy “Little” bringing in 15-point-5 million dollars for Universal Pictures. “Hellboy” -- featuring Daniel Dae Kim-- debuted at number three with 12 million dollars.
The final season of winter has arrived for the Game of Thrones. This past Sunday night, HBO’s Game of Thrones begans its six-episode march to the end after nearly two years off the air. Last year the premiere pulled in 30 million viewers in the US alone, but it was illegally downloaded more than one billion times. Grace Lee gives us her take on the first episode of the final season.
There are pictures of a couple of celebs in town including George Clinton, Owen Wilson and Hugh Jackman.
Those working include The Rock, Kevin Hart and Jack Black here in Hawaii for Jumanji2.
Beth Chapman posted
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Late news: Mystery Solved (mostly)Still the same behavior on my Bloglines subscription to the NYTimes as reported in the updates to the
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original posting. To Mark Fletcher (Bloglines): can you illuminate the behavior described below?
Still the same behavior on my Bloglines subscription to the NYTimes as reported in the updates to the original posting. To Mark Fletcher (Bloglines): can you illuminate the behavior described below?
To the vigilant folk(s) from blogyourway.com, who asked whether people should update their links to mistaken information, as long as the orignal poster does so and a link exists, the "damage" will heal itself.
I'm still from Missouri on this one--something has changed for me in Bloglines, on the NY Times Business RSS feed among others, on two separate Macs, on both Safari and Firefox, on the same Comcast cable modem connection going through a Speedstream router and WiFi network. As J.D. Lasica requests, I remain concerned.
My Rojo beta account came back online and I just tried this scenario in that UI. Same behavior:
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The breed is awe-inspiringly helpless—saucer-eyed and slack-jawed in a way that always seems jolly or
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afraid. They are probably the only living creature that looks exactly like a Margaret Keane portrait, and we find it impossible not to like them.
Each year for the past 16 years, the Oregon Humane Society has held a block-long parade of pugs as a fundraiser, as it will do again May 22—a tradition begun not by OHS but by the pug's many fervent fans, whose ardor is legend. Your own pocketbook is likely also defenseless against a 100-strong army of the adorable.
Viewed another way, though, a parade of pugs is an unspeakable cruelty.
The big eyes and almost noseless face of the pug come from generations of selective breeding for qualities we find endearing. But as it turns out, those traits also make it very, very difficult to function as a dog. There's at least one leading veterinary professor, a German named Dr. Gerhard Oechtering, who argues that all short-
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Jamal Crawford scored 29 points and the host New York Knicks beat the Washington Wizards, 105-93, last night to give them consecutive victories for
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only the third time this season.
Zach Randolph and Nate Robinson added 14 points apiece for the Knicks, who will go for their first three-game winning streak of the season tonight at New Jersey.
Two nights after an 89-65 victory over the Detroit Pistons, the Knicks built a 22-point lead in the first half, then turned back every push by Washington, which had won three straight.
Both Knicks victories came without starting point guard Stephon Marbury, who has bone spurs in his left ankle and will also miss tonight's game. He is scheduled for a magnetic resonance imaging tomorrow that could determine whether he needs surgery.
Caron Butler scored 24 points and Antawn Jamison had 21 for the Wizards, who have played most of the season without All-Star Gilbert Arenas and last night had to go without his replacement, Antonio Daniels, who had a sore right knee. Roger Mason started at point guard and scored 20 points.
The Wizards were coming off Monday
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LONDON (Reuters) - Roger Federer was handed the Sunday night prime time slot for the opening match of his 16th ATP Finals but fl
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uffed his lines in an error-strewn 7-6(4) 6-3 defeat by Kei Nishikori.
After Kevin Anderson had beaten Dominic Thiem in the day’s supporting act, the crowds packed into the O2 Arena and settled in for another Federer masterclass.
What they got instead were 34 unforced errors flying off the Swiss great’s frame as his timing fell apart, and the sight of a tetchy Federer falling out with the umpire.
To sum up Federer’s night, he received a warning from umpire Damian Steiner in the 12th game of the opening set when he bashed a ball into the crowd.
“He thought I was angry. I wasn’t. Now I’m angry because I lost,” Federer, who will face Thiem on Tuesday in a match he will need to win to revive his hopes of reaching the semi-finals of
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Ed Whitlock is hardly hibernating after setting a new world record in the 85- to 89-year-old age category Sunday in the
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Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
The distance specialist is busy conducting interviews with media from around the globe as reporters vie for sound bites from the octogenarian, who ran 42.195 km in three hours, 56 minutes and 33 seconds.
1. How does your body feel in the week after running a marathon at age 85?
EW: Not too bad. No different really than how I felt after marathons in the past. My legs are a bit stiff.
2. How do you deal with the discomfort?
EW: I just wait for it to go away. That’s my secret recipe for all my aches and pains. In general, most therapies don’t seem to work for me. If I have a massage, for instance, I spend 15 minutes on the table and it feels better for 15 minutes after. And then you’re back to where you were before.
3. What’s it like
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Ready or not, here comes Saint West!
Kim Kardashian shared some photos of her son being as playful as can be on Sunday. Her pictures
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, which were all in black and white, showed Saint laying down in a ball pit in a variety of positions. In some instances he's laying on his stomach with his head covered, and in others he's flashing the biggest smile. His little sister Chicago West made a brief cameo in one of the pictures, too.
Those two have always been "inseparable" as Kim puts it, and playtime is clearly no exception.
It seems like Saint's gallivanting in the ball put has earned him a new nickname: "the king of hide and seek." Saint of the ball pit, perhaps?
He's already an expert ball player, too. In September, he joined his dad Kanye Westto throw the first pitch at a Chicago Cubs-Chicago White Sox baseball game. Game results aside, Saint's MLB debut made him the clear winner of the day.
The KKW Beauty owner posts no shortage of sweet images of her kids. Just yesterday she shared a funny
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A Northeastern University report shows that many black and Latino students are being prevented from attending some of the top public schools in Boston.
A new
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report shows that many black and Latino students are being prevented from attending some of the top public schools in Boston.
Dan O'Brien, the lead author of a new Northeastern University report, presented his findings to the School Committee on Monday night, which show that Boston has been unsuccessful in creating equal access to high quality schools.
Boston Public Schools member Regina Robinson says the presentation led to a "yup" moment.
The report found a computerized system the city uses to assign students to schools is only making segregation among the city’s schools—worse.
"Black students most so and Latino students as well saw less opportunity for access to quality schools than their white and Asian counterparts,” O'Brien said.
The study found that more than 80-percent of kindergarten students in Boston's affluent and historically white neighborhoods like Charlestown and Back Bay attend high-quality public schools with higher test scores compared to only 5-percent in the historically black neighborhood of Matt
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With Rovers firmly in mid-table, and all but certain to be playing Championship football next season, Tony Mowbray admits their poor
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form has prevented him from experimenting as much as he would have hoped.
Rovers are 11 points clear of the bottom three ahead of the visit of Stoke City, but have won just once in their last 10 matches. Mowbray had hoped to hand opportunities to more young of the club’s promising youngsters with seven games remaining, but is reluctant to do that given their current form.
While many fans’ thoughts have already turned to next season, Mowbray admits there is still work to do to finish off this campaign and make sure it doesn’t take a bigger downturn.
However, he believes whether or not the perception of the season would change with a poor finish is for other people to decide.
“I think so, I think that’s where we are,” Mowbray said of the inability to experiment more.
“We have to dig really deep. I know we beat Wigan in our last home
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Bronx Alehouse owner James Langstine claims he already was paying the majority of his employees what is now the minimum wage of $15 an
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hour for businesses like his, even before it rose from $13 on Dec. 31. Langstine sees it as one way he can help offset the city’s high cost of living — and hold on to a skilled, experienced staff.
Mina Muñoz, bartender at the Bronx Alehouse in Kingsbridge, pours a drink. The cozy burger-and-brew spot had to comply with the state’s minimum wage hike that went into effect Dec. 31, requiring most businesses to now pay at least $15 an hour. But Alehouse owner James Langstine says it wasn’t a huge adjustment for him, since he already pay the majority of his employees that much.
The Bronx Alehouse — a comfortable Kingsbridge watering hole closing in on a decade in business — has adjusted just fine to a minimum wage increase that took effect Dec. 31, owner James Langstine said. To compensate for the hike — from $13 to $15
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It’s been a massive 22 years since Tom Cruise first brought Mission: Impossible to the screen. That’s more than two decades
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of suspending from wires, running at high speed and blowing things up. Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the sixth and latest addition to the franchise – and it’s as big as they come. The film follows Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his team of spies as they attempt to prevent a terrorist organisation from detonating a series of nuclear weapons. The twisty plot sees Hunt once again come into contact with MI6 agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) and their mutual enemy Solomon Lane (Sean Harris). Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames are back as Benji and Luther, though fellow team member Brandt (Jeremy Renner) fails to make an appearance. Also returning to the franchise is Hunt’s wife Julia (Michelle Monaghan) – her first appearance since a cameo in the fourth film. There are a few notable additions to the cast this time around. Angela Bassett plays Erica Sloan, head of the CIA and Vanessa Kirby plays the enigmatic White Widow,
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Almighty and everlasting God, behold I come to the Sacrament of Thine only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: I come
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as one infirm to the physician of life, as one unclean to the fountain of mercy, as one blind to the light of everlasting brightness, as one poor and needy to the Lord of heaven and earth. Therefore I implore the abundance of Thy measureless bounty that Thou wouldst vouchsafe to heal my infirmity, wash my uncleanness, enlighten my blindness, enrich my poverty and clothe my nakedness, that I may receive the Bread of Angels, the King of kings, the Lord of lords, with such reverence and humility, with such sorrow and devotion, with such purity and faith, with such purpose and intention as may be profitable to my soul's salvation. Grant unto me, I pray, the grace of receiving not only the Sacrament of our Lord's Body and Blood, but also the grace and power of the Sacrament. O most gracious God, grant me so to receive the Body of Thine only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Drug Control Police claim to have dismantled a drug-trafficking gang with links to the Mexican Sinaloa cartel.
After raiding homes in
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Santa Ana, southwest of San José, and the southwestern Hatillo neighborhood, police announced the arrests of a Tico, last name Guillen, the alleged ringleader, and a Cuban, last name Lizazo. The men are also known as “Pelón” and “Manny,” respectively. Lizazo is now a naturalized U.S. citizen.
According to a Public Security Ministry press release, Lizazo and Guillen, 40, reported to an unidentified woman in Mexico who is linked to the Sinaloa cartel.
Public Security Vice Minister José Torres said the gang brought drugs from Panama, stored them for a short time in Costa Rica and then shipped them to Mexico, with the United States as final destination.
Authorities began investigating the gang in February and achieved their first results when they arrested two Mexicans, last names Amezquita and Sánchez, in April after seizing 299 kilograms of cocaine stored in a remodeled house
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Marc Martel stars in “The Ultimate Queen Celebration” April 27 at Governor’s State University.
The unseen artist behind some
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of the Freddie Mercury vocals in the award-winning movie “Bohemian Rhapsody” will bring Mercury and his music to life at “The Ultimate Queen Celebration” April 27 at Governors State University.
After six years and more than 160 shows with the tribute band, Martel has created his own version of a Queen tribute and taken it on the road.
“The Ultimate Queen Celebration” features 23 renowned Queen songs performed by Martel, including "Radio Gaga," "Tie Your Mother Down," "Fat Bottomed Girls," "Killer Queen," "Somebody to Love” and the iconic "Bohemian Rhapsody."
Lana Rogachevskaya, executive director for GSU’s Center for Performing Arts, said there was no question that the Center would take the opportunity to showcase Martel after hearing him sing.
“When I received an email from Marc’s agent and then listened to his sound
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Hundreds of the Bay Area’s Tibetan refugees and their supporters rallied in Berkeley and San Francisco this month to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the
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peaceful uprising of the Tibetan people against China’s occupation of Tibet.
More than 1,500 Tibetan refugees from India, Nepal and Tibet live in the Bay Area, according to the Tibetan Association of Northern California.
Yangchen Lhamo, 25, has been politically active in the movement since her high school days. She sits on the board of Students for a Free Tibet, a Tibet support group. Lhamo was part of the group that organized monthlong demonstrations that took place in the Bay Area during the Beijing Olympic torch relay in 2008.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, issued a statement in support of the Dalai Lama’s plan to devolve his political authority and give it to the future prime minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile.
He said steps toward selecting a new leader would begin next week.
“Regardless of the outcome as to which candidate will now shoulder the responsibility of navigating our cause, we will need guidance at this crucial jun
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The township’s board of zoning appeals Monday night voted to grant a request for Safe Ward Inc. to open a facility on Eckley Boulevard
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, despite opposition from neighborhood residents.
The BZA granted a conditional use for the facility, allowing it to operate a home for males 12 to 17.
The BZA’s decision can be appealed to Montgomery County court.
A plan to have a group home for youths in a Miami Twp. neighborhood is set to go before a zoning board tonight.
An exception to locate a community oriented residential social service facility on Eckley Boulevard is scheduled to be reviewed by the township’s board of zoning appeals.
The BZA has said it is looking into whether the site of the proposed facility to house up to six males, ages 12 to 17, fits within township guidelines to be granted a conditional use.
Among those guidelines for the proposal by Safe Ward Inc. is that “no other community oriented residential social service facility is issued a conditional use certificate within 1,500 feet of the property” at 2600 Eckley.
BZA members said last month they held
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